3. Asking Romney to pledge his primary delegates to a better candidate. (Who?)

And I can imagine some even darker possibilities, but if Romney's handling of his returns is ham-fisted (or if the returns themselves are incredible damaging, as recently speculated) I'm guessing it will be #3.

On edit: I just realized that this is what Sarah Palin may be waiting for. As McCain's VP candidate she may have heard about the trouble with Romney as a possible VP candidate (something like: his tax returns ruled him out."), and is waiting for the issue of the returns to blow up in his face, then step in with her energized base, and . . . (Geez!) I don't know if it's possible, but it's very possible that she is thinking along such lines.

2. They don't care about Romney, nor do they vote with their brains. They want power by any means.

3. This is not a hard question. What did they do in 08,when they knew they had a loser and one

they did not really care for? They fell to pieces. Then they lost. There is nothing that they do that they don't always do. And just like 08, they will not only lose, but they will bleed credibility all the way to election day.
This is just 08, repeated.

5. Playing out right now

I don't think the Republican establishment is spending much to promote their candidate right now. I think in the 2008 election the pieces, that they fell to, were a little larger. The pieces that they have broken into this year seem much, much smaller.

Will the pieces be harder to put back together after this year's contest? I certainly hope so.

7. They will switch their cash to backing key Senate and House races.

8. I don't know why anyone wants to push the meme that the GOP is organized enough to do ANYTHING.

The Sun is setting on the conservative mindset. No one is in charge at the GOP. No one was in charge during the Palin disaster. No one was in charge when Romney stepped into the spotlight.

More and more companies and organizations are promoting gay rights while the Tea Party continues to fracture the GOP from within. I am more optimistic than ever before that a new Progressive era is about to replace the Conservative nightmare of the past 3 decades.

18. Yep...

They'll just get Sheldon Addled-son, the Koch Brothers, the Ricketts, etc. to kick in another several hundred million dollars, and just carpet-bomb the country with negative, deceitful ads. People will either buy into them, or they'll get so disgusted, they'll just stay home on election day. That's on top of all of the voter purging, voter ID bullshit, voting machine tampering... Quite frankly, I believe this is what we are in for already.

They have shown, SINCE 2000 that they are capable of this. The machinery is largely owned by partisan Republican corporations and operated with PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE that we the people are not allowed access to.

They have been going full speed ahead in the new Jim Crow voter ID laws.

They long ago lost the policy arguments. All they have left is cheating.

24. Do what everyone least expects...

...take it on the chin.

Then bellow how Romney was the perfect candidate to beat Obama. But because of the hard right (Tea Party) refusing to vote for him/hijacking the party platform/forcing Mitt to move right instead of center to keep the independent vote/etc. they will say they lost.

Then they will hold a gun to the Tea Party and tell them form their own political party as they will no longer use their infrastructure, cash, etc. or fall in line.

Most will know that the jig is up and fall in line. The rest will actually form a party...and given that the system is set up to keep a two party system....it falters and goes into obscurity...and they return to voting Republican.